1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 1500 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 30 August and 1 September 1966.

Medalists

Gold	Bodo Tümmler West Germany
Silver	Michel Jazy France
Bronze	Harald Norpoth West Germany

Results

Final

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:41.9
	Michel Jazy	France	3:42.2
	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:42.4
4	Alan Simpson	Great Britain	3:43.8
5	Jürgen May	East Germany	3:44.1
6	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3:44.3
7	Jean Wadoux	France	3:44.5
8	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:45.8
9	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	3:46.2
10	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3:46.5
11	Walter Wilkinson	Great Britain	3:46.9
12	Claude Nicolas	France	3:48.1

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:44.9	Q
2	Michel Jazy	France	3:45.1	Q
3	Walter Wilkinson	Great Britain	3:45.4	Q
4	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3:45.4	Q
5	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	3:45.7
6	Oleg Rayko	Soviet Union	3:46.7
7	Roland Brehmer	Poland	3:49.0
8	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3:51.5
9	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:52.4
10	Gani Alia	Albania	3:57.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3:40.7	CR NR Q
2	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:41.1	Q
3	Jürgen May	East Germany	3:41.2	Q
4	Claude Nicolas	France	3:41.4	Q
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3:42.1
6	Mart Vilt	Soviet Union	3:42.7
7	Roman Tkaczyk	Poland	3:45.1
8	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	3:45.6
9	Preben Glue	Denmark	3:45.9
10	Gergely Szentivanyi	Hungary	3:47.2

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean Wadoux	France	3:45.3	Q
2	Alan Simpson	Great Britain	3:45.5	Q
3	Eugene Allonsius	Belgium	3:45.6	Q
4	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:45.7	Q
5	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	3:45.8
6	Hans-Rudolf Knill	Switzerland	3:46.3
7	Franco Arese	Italy	3:46.3
8	Stig Rekdal	Norway	3:46.3
9	Wolf Schulte-Hillen	West Germany	3:46.5
10	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	3:48.4
11	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	3:48.9
12	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3:56.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

• Albania (1)
• Belgium (2)
• Czechoslovakia (2)
• Denmark (1)
• East Germany (1)
• France (3)
• Hungary (1)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Norway (2)
• Poland (3)
• Portugal (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (1)
• Turkey (1)
• Great Britain (2)
• West Germany (3)
• Yugoslavia (1)